The Lancaster High boys’ tennis team, coming off a banner region championship season, used their returning experienced players to help the Bruins earn back-to-back Region III-AAAA championships this spring.

“We were lucky to only lose one player after last year,” LHS boys tennis coach Ray Sapp said. “After last year, I felt confident.”

Region III-AAAA champion Lancaster blanked South Aiken, 5-0 to open the Class AAAA Upper State softball playoffs on Wednesday night.

LHS senior southpaw pitcher Summer Clinton, the Region III-AAAA Player of the Year and a North-South All-Star selection, tossed a two-hitter, a no-hitter for six innings, and struck out eight. She walked one.

LHS scored two runs in the third and a pair in the fourth to take a 4-0 spread.

Senior catcher Gracie Revels, in the bottom of the fifth, drilled a solo home run for the five-run spread.

The Andrew Jackson Volunteers opened the Class AA Upper State District III baseball playoffs, rolling to a convincing 11-1 road win over top-seeded and and sixth-ranked Saluda High School on Wednesday night.

The Vols, the fourth seed out of Region IV-AA, thumped the Region III-AA champion Tigers in five innings when the game ended with the 10-run mercy rule.

Lancaster High School captured titles in the 12th annual KLS Running for Ryan Lancaster County track meet Saturday afternoon at the LHS track.

The Bruins topped the boys field with 103 points, while the Lady Bruins won the girls meet with 77 points.

The LHS boys won seven events, while the Lady Bruins took six firsts in the event held in memory of Ryan McKinney, a former LHS track athlete. Running for Ryan also serves to promote a greater awareness of KLS – Klein Levin Syndrome.

Veteran Buford High School assistant football coach Wes James is the first recipient of the Lancaster County Fellowship of Christian Athletes Coach of the Year, the ‘Coach Mo’ Award.

James, the Jackets’ longtime offensive line coach, was presented the honor, given in memory of his former BHS coaching associate Jeff Moyer, better known as “Coach Mo,” during the annual Lancaster County Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet at Second Baptist Church on Monday night.